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Thank you. We should feel better than the vast majority of programs right now. We lost a disappointing game to a conference opponent—so what? That describes almost every team every year not named Bama, UGA, Clemson, or Ohio State. We can still have a great season.

Now that I’m more emotionally stable… We played without our best player. We had some fluky, awfully timed mistakes (the end zone pick, the missed FG, a couple dropped would be picks). Purdue is probably better than advertised (especially their D), plus Spoilermaker game. We didn’t lose by...

Boggles my mind that 17 AP voters don’t find the Gophers to be among the top 25 teams given how thoroughly dominating we’ve been so far. Especially coming off of a 9-win season. If that doesn’t prove some anti-Minnesota bias in the media—whether intentional or not—I’m not sure what does.

Our stadium is great. I particularly love the exterior—the classic brick bowl design with some glass/modern features. I’ve only seen games at two other B1G stadiums: Maryland and Nebraska. Maryland’s stadium was nothing special. I like Memorial Stadium at Nebraska, but part of that may be the...

I think 21-25. Rather than viewing us as really good based on this game, they’ll see Michigan State as worse than they thought, and we won’t get credit for that. But at 4-0 with a road P5 win in dominating fashion (again), I think it’ll be impossible for voters to leave them out. If Minnesota...

I wish for that (actually I’d rather play Michigan, but whatever). We hung with Ohio State last year. They would have more to lose than us. But while I’m high on this team, I’m still not going to start browsing hotels in Indy just yet. @Penn State, @Illinois, and @Wisconsin will probably be...

But MSU won’t be a “quality win” according to the media. MSU will have lost to an unranked Minnesota team and fallen to 2-2, so obviously they were never good in the first place! Therefore, Minnesota didn’t beat a good team and gets little credit. The disrespect gets old and the circular poll...

Washington’s B1G audition is going well.

Nothing screams insecure like making fun of another college’s academics. What a weird cult.

Haven’t seen Dave Clawson’s name thrown around much. As a Wake fan I hope that doesn’t happen. He’s a little older so maybe not what Nebby wants, but he has a solid track record of turning programs around. If he can make Wake into a conference contender, he can certainly bring Nebby back to...

I, too, can pull random facts off Wikipedia. Maybe he can tell us the schools’ colors next.

US News is indeed garbage but the reality is that a lot of people use it as a reputation metric, hence my point about those schools not being a slap in the face from an academic reputation standpoint. FSU is very similar to Nebraska athletically and (until very recent years) academically. With...

A slap in the face? That’s a bit pretentious. They may not be AAU (I honestly don’t know) or research powerhouses like most B1G schools, but they’re both US News top 60 universities—and ranked above Minnesota. Not like they’re Troy and Fresno State. Miami has long been a good academic school...

As a Wake fan who had to suffer though getting beat down in the ACC championship by his team, this jackassery doesn’t surprise me. He was a huge tool about Picket’s fake slide stunt.

Not really a fan of this. Maybe I’ll end up liking the arrangement one day, but I strongly prefer geographically/culturally cohesive conferences. Maryland and Rutgers were bad enough (I’ve always been good with Nebraska, personally), but they were at least contiguous to PA. Similarly, I hated...

What a dink. Perhaps someone should remind him Minnesota is in the 14th largest media market in the country, 5th largest in the new B1G. Not to mention other gaping problems with his brainless fear mongering.

I hope the ratings for this game are awful.

It’d be like watching Wisconsin and Iowa play for the championship. But I still can’t muster any sympathy. They could’ve prevented this by beating Bama and they didn’t.

A&M has a talent gap over Wake for sure, but they’ve looked pretty shaky at points this year. And Wake beat A&M in their previous bowl matchup just a few years ago despite the talent gap. But Clemson has been playing very well lately. I see them as a lock too.

This crow I’ve been eating the past several weeks is tasting better each time.